Quotes About Paradigm

When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

implications are mind-boggling.

Thus, it doesn't take many people to anchor a new way of thinking or believing

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief

The new history is coming; it's not a dream, though it do beyond men's imagination, and for good reason. It's going them of their conceptual orthopedics, beginning with the de their enticement machine.

Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Some carry out their work explicitly denying that it is a revolution; others deliberately use Kuhn's language of paradigm shifts to describe the changes they witness.

As Jung pointed out, our ancestors believed in gods; we believe in vitamins—both invisible.

Cultural categories, in fact, need not constrain us since they can always be used against themselves to open up new possibilities.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Whereas the logical mode of thought can only manipulate the world view of given paradigm, intuition can inspire genuine creativity, since it is not shackled by the nagging analytical mind, which often serves only to intimidate imaginative thought.

The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.

He [Ludwig Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question: "Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?" I replied: "I suppose, because it looked as if the sun went round the earth." "Well," he asked, "what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?" —ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE,

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

it's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.

Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.

There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution

porque Leonardo da Vinci constituye el paradigma del principal tema de mis anteriores biografías: que la capacidad de establecer conexiones entre diferentes disciplinas —artes y ciencias, humanidades y tecnología— es la clave de la innovación, de la imaginación y del genio.

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

When you change the way you process the world, the world you're processing changes.

change our ingrained ways of thinking and see how our lives change as a result.